Gray Matter

In the 2018 movie “The Leisure Seekers,” Donald Sutherland portrays an elderly man suffering increasingly from Alzheimer’s-related memory loss, even as he and his wife (played by Helen Mirren) travel America’s highways in their aged Winnebago. Although the movie is not without humor, it also highlights both the sadness of the disease and its painful impact on sufferer and caregivers alike. Sutherland describes his fictional role as “the pursuit of dignity,” a real-life challenge that an increasing number of us will confront as we get older.

Alzheimer’s is a neurodegenerative disease that causes brain cell death over time. According to the Alzheimer’s Association, by age 85, we will either have the disease or will be taking care of someone with it.

With drone technology transforming everything from motion picture cinematography to transportation, don’t be surprised to see flying robots tending crop fields, or at least that’s the future of agriculture envisioned…